Automobile manufacturers improved the miles-per-gallon performance of their cars 60 percent between 1973 and 1988, but this trend now seems to be reversing: as 1996 year when the cars going into junkyards were getting better gas mileage than the ones rolling off dealers’ lots.
A . as 1996 was the first year when the cars going into junkyards were getting
B . as 1996 was the first year that the cars that had gone into junkyards got
C . with 1996 as the first year that the cars going into junkyards got
D . 1996 was the first year when the cars that had gone into junkyards were getting
E . 1996 was the first year in which the cars going into junkyards got
Answer: E